Fifty
years before Andy Griffith's delightful performance in Waitress,
he made his film debut in Elia Kazan's A
Face in the Crowd (with Patricia Neal) at the Michigan in Ann
Arbor. Also at that theater was Gun
for a Coward, with Fred MacMurray, who in the mid-1950s "emulated
Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea and kept his career going with budget-price
actioners, mostly Westerns" (The Great Movie Stars, David
Shipman).

In
downtown Detroit, the Grand Circus Park underground parking garage opened,
which made it easier for visitors to the Madison, Adams, Fox, United Artists
and other downtown theaters. At the Michigan in Detroit, Debbie Reynolds
sang her hit song "Tammy" in Tammy
and the Bachelor, which Helen Bower of the Detroit Free Press
called "hot weather entertainment for the family trade." (June
27, 1957)